Hardware Engineer

• Assist with designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products.

• Conduct design analysis on components and/or assemble to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be manufactured, and reliable.

• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion.

• Apply ASIC or FPGA place and route (P&R) tools with various libraries to create physical implementations of designs.

• Assist with de-processing electronic components and retrieving stored firmware or software using approved reverse engineering procedures.

• Integrate new P&R tools, P&R tool updates, and ASIC or FPGA design libraries into the Government’s computer aided design environment and document the use of those tools and libraries.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelors' Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related discipline. 5 years of additional software engineering experience may be substituted for a Bachelors’ Degree.

Years of Experience: 12 years.

Technical Skills: Programming in VHDL (10 years), Programming on Xilinx FPGAs - any combination of VlRTEX-ll Pro, VIRTEX-4, VIRTEX-5, or VIRTEX-6 (8 Years), Programming on Linux platforms (5 years)

Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI w/ Poly